Readers respond: No more parks for now

Please, please, please, Portland, stop creating parks and green spaces in the city until you are willing to care for them properly. The number of dead trees and acres of grass planted but never watered is a waste of tax dollars. The myriad weeds crowding out unwatered green spaces do no beautify our neighborhoods and byways.

If the cost of water and labor is too great, use ivy in confined areas and other landscape designs in larger areas to create spaces citizens can enjoy. In an environment that is rapidly warming, it no longer makes sense to spend tax dollars on grass, trees and shrubs that will only be left to wither and die.